With major film festivals being extremely competitive, you might think that after getting accepted into a selection of festivals, the hardest job is done. Your film will get seen and hopefully that will bring all the indie film buzz you wish for. But now you need to Market Your Festival Screening. I’ll use Raindance as […]
Why are marketing skills important? To earn a good living as a freelancer you need to be highly effective in marketing skills for freelance filmmakers. Effective marketing will help you to gain many new and diverse opportunities and will also help new customers select you when carrying out internet searches. 8 tips to help you […]
10 Strategic Steps To Get A Literary Agent | Four Things An Agent Does | What Does a Publisher Do? | How Much Do Literary Agents Charge? | The Query Letter | 10 Tips for Writing Loglines | How Creatives Reject Rejection | Gallery of Rejection The internet has brought a great deal of democracy to publishing. While […]
Happiest of Junes to you, fellow filmmakers. It’s time to start flexing that creative muscle again and create a buzz around your film so that you have the best chance of getting your film screened and sold. Kat and Dusan are here to discuss ways in which you can start thinking outside of the box when it comes to […]
Film distribution is the number one concern of any filmmaker. We see hundreds of movies every year at Raindance. While filmmakers know how to make a movie, few have a single clue about how to go about monetising the fruits of their labours. I have worked as a consultant on many different movies with budgets […]
When you are starting out in filmmaking and have an idea for a story, it might be difficult to find a way to express yourself, so it is always a good idea to start somewhere – anywhere basically. First stop on your filmmaking journey: Genre. And creating a unique genre. There is a plethora of […]
Here are my Top 5 tests for determining if you are sharing and caring for your content – or if you are just being a hog about yourself and your cause. Yes, it is essential for you to develop a cohesive branded message across a variety of social media outlets to establish your message and […]
“Cult status is manufactured. Not earned” – Elliot Grove What’s your message? What will you be known for? How can an audience find you if you are not advertising yourself? By following the marketing steps as outlined here, Cinema 2.0 artists can expand their promotional and marketing activities. You must create a #cultofpersonality that […]
It happens to me every year right after the Raindance Film Festival and British Independent Film Awards I overhear and read a lot of terribly misleading and inaccurate information about the state of independent cinema. What annoys me is that these negative comments are generally from know-it-alls who spend their time flirting around film festivals […]
In order to get people into the cinema to see the movie you’ve been working on for years, you’ll need to create a buzz. Most of the commercially successful films of the last twenty years have had huge marketing budgets which have allowed them to bombard us with trailers, posters and tv spots. That’s all […]
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